This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Sand that begins with:
All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 0101010101 1101110001 1011011101 1101010101 11000111001 1101101101 1101011101 11001010101 0011011111 1011010101 1011010001 1001110111 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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